Trap gun



TRAP GUN Filed sept, 6, 19.22 2 sheets-sheet 1 Patented Oict. 7, 192,4. j

uren s'r'res 'PATENT OFFICE.'

WILHELM nam, or oscnoL-A, NEBRASKA.

TRAP

Application filed September' .provements in Trap Guns, of which the followin is a s ecication. llhe o ject o my said invention is the provision of a simple and desirable trap gun designed more particularly for the killlng of small fur bearing animals.

To the attainment of the foregoing, the invention consists in the improvement as hereinafter described and definitely claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, for-ming part of this specication Figure 1 is a side elevation of the trap gun constituting the preferred embodiment of my invention with the parts in the positions they occupy precedent to cooking of the gun or after firing thereof.

'Figure 2 is a similar view showing the gun set or cocked. l

Fi re 3 is an enlarged detail section showing the firing pin of the gun and the parts adjacent thereto and also showing a cartridge in the barrel.

Figure 4 is an enlarged detail section showing the arrangement of the frame and stajke.

Fi e `5 is an enlarged detail section showing the adjustable connection of the guide eye to the hanger on the barrel.

Similar numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings.

Among other elements my novel trap gun comprises a barrel 1, enlarged and threaded at its rear end as designated by 2. Adjustably fixed by a set screw 3 or other appropriete means on the barrel 1 is a hanger 4 in the form of a metallic stra and provided with apertures 5. The sai apertures 5 are provided for the adjustable positioning of a guide eye 6 on which is a shank 7, Figure 5, for use. in conjunction with a wing nut 8.

ln combination with the said barrel 1 I employ a breech member 9 on which is a forwardly extending tubular projection 10, the rear portion of the interior of which 'is reduced and threaded as desiated by 11.. This provision is made in order that' the barrel :may bev e editionsly and easily disassooiated from i e breech for the plaenn of a cartridge 12 in the barrel, after whic GUN.

6, 1922. Serial No. 588,416.

the barrel may be turned into the tubular projection of the breech to the position shown in Figure 3, where both barrel and cartridge are in readiness for firing.' A casing plug 413 is threadedV into the breech 9 from the rear end of said breech, and in the casing plug is a firing pin 14 yieldingly maintained in the position shown in 'Figure- 3 by a spring 15, the said springl 15 being interposed between a sub-plug 16 in the'inner end of the casing plug 13 and an enlargement 17 on the firing pin.

v The breech 9 is carried by a body 18 and is preferably formed integral with the body 18, and as designated by 19 in Figures 1, 2 and 4 the body 18 is dis osed in and pivotally connected to a biurcated yoke 20, This yoke 20 is swivelled on a stake 21 which is designed to be driven into the ground'or into any available object with a view to maintaining the trap gun in working position.

Pivoted at 22 on the body 18 is a lever hammer 23, the upper portion of which is opposed to the firing pin 14, and the lower portion of which is connected to one end of'v a retractile spring 24;. The opposite end of the spring 24 is connected to an eye 25 on the pintle 26 of a sear lever 27 The lever 27 and the pintle 26 are carried by an eX- tension plate 28, fixedly attachedat 29 to the body 18. It will also be noticed that a retractile spring 30 is interposed between and connected to the lower arm of the Sear lever 27 and the plate 28.

Pivotally connected to and extending forwardly from the lower arm of the sear lever 427 is a bait rod 31, said rod being disposed and guided in the eye 6 and being provided at its forward end with a hook 32 designed to hold bait in proper position relative to the muzzle of the barrel 1.

It will be apparent from the foregoing that when an animal pulls on bait attached to the rod 31 in the manner described, the sear lever 27 will be rocked against the action of the spring 30 and in consequence the said sear lever willfrelease the hammer 23, whereupon the spring 2e will powerfully impel t e'hammer against the firing pin 14 and thereby explode the cartridge 12 and kill vthe animal. To set or cock the gun it is simply necessary to move the hammer 23 from the position shown in Figure 1 to the position shown in Figure 2, thebeveled vportion 40 of the hammer being adapted to ride past the toe al oi't the scar lever 27 so as to enable the said sear lever to snap into engagement with the recess 42 in the hammer 23.

ln virtue of the gun being pivotally mounted or swiveled on the stake 2l as designed it will be manifest that the gun cannot be iired until an animal exerts a straight `pull on the rod 3l. 4lit will also be manifest that the firing pin is susceptible of being readily removed and replaced.'

The adjustability of the guide eye 6 in the hanger or regulating slide a of the gun is also advantageous, and it will be noted that the barrel 1 is adapted to be adjusted in and adjustably fixed to the hanger or regulating slide Ll.

'lhe' adaptability et the rod 3i to be regulated-i. e., raised or lowered is important inasmuch as the gun can thereby be regulated for large or small. animals. Moreover the gun can be carried in a loaded state Without danger, the parts being preferably positioned in that case as shown 1n F1 re l.

As est shown in Figure 4 the body 18 is preferably provided in front of its center of movement With a foot 5() which by bearing on the yoke 20 serves to support the body 18 1n proper Working position.

l would also have it understood that in practice the gun is made sciently heavy to prevent jumping ont the gun when the same is discharged.

l have entered into a-detailed description ot the construction and relative arrangement of the parts embracedv in the present and preerred embodiment ofi-my invention in order to impart a full, clear and exact understanding of' the said embodiment. I do notA desire, however,v to be understood as conning myself to the speciicconstruction andrelative arrangement of parts inasmuch as in the future practice of the invention various chan es and modifications may be made such as fa Within the scope of my invention as defined in my appended claim.

Having described my invention, what l claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s z- Ina trap gun, a breech portion having a plug socket and a pin aperture dis osed concentrically of the socket, a plug etachably .secured in the socket and' having its inner end bearing against the inner Wall or' the socket, the plug having a shoulder which bears against the face of the breech portion, a firing pin passing through the plug and the pin aperture, the said plug having a chamber which receives the intermediate portion of the firing pin, the tiring' pin having an abutment which is slidably received in the chamber, a sub-plug closing the endture.. 

